Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program: Principles and Parameters in Syntactic Theory

This volume provides an authoritative overview of Government and Binding Theory, and -- in crucial new papers by Noam Chomsky and Alec Marantz -- of the subsequent development of the Minimalist Program.

* The definitive, cutting-edge handbook to generative syntax.
* Includes new articles by Chomsky and Marantz on the minimalist
program.
* All essays are written by leading figures in the field.
* Includes invaluable consolidated and fully up-to-date
bibliography.

"This text fills an important gap in the market - the first serious
attempt at survey of the contemporary state the art in syntax. It
will be useful for final-year undergraduates, graduate students,
and professional linguists who want to get themselves up-to-speed
with issues, controversies, and currently 'hot' leading-lights."
Rita Manzini, University College, London

"This collection of articles provides exactly the sort of
up-to-the-minute coverage of key issues that such students need to
bridge the gap between their own knowledge and the often rather
forbidding primary literature. Each is written by an acknowledged
expert in the relevant field and serves to explain the agenda of
current research against a comprehensive bibliographical survey. It
will be an indispensible tool for anyone with a serious interest in
consolidating or updating their knowledge of contemporary syntactic
theory." Geoffrey Horrocks, University of Cambridge

"This book serves the critical role of passing on the basic
lore of generative syntax to the current generation. It is highly
readable and well-organized. Given the volume of research relevant
to shaping this lore and the advent of the minimalist program,
which is reshaping it at a fundamental level, this is a timely and
useful book. It is highly readable and well organised. It
effectively transmits enough of the tradition of generative grammar
and its leading principles to capture what it is that gives
coherence to the generative culture and furnishes the culture with
its current vitality. This book also raises several issues which
are paramount to determining the shape that generative syntax will
take in the future including the nature of the lexicon, the level
of descriptive adequacy necessary to sustain a syntactic theory,
the role of functional heads in language, and the degree to which a
syntactic theory should predict certain linguistic features to be
common or rare cross-linguistically." Lindsay Whaley, Dartmouth
College

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